ABDUCTOR MINIMI DIGITI. 



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The ABDUCTOK MINIMI DIGITI (fig. 75, c) has a wide or^m Abductor of 

 behind from the small outer tubercle of the os calcis, from the toe . 

 adjacent part of the inner tubercle, extending inwards beneath 

 the flexor brevis digitorum (fig. 76), from the outer band of the 

 plantar fascia and from the external intermuscular septum. It ends jjjgjjj^ 



Tendo adiillis 

 Flexor brevis digitorum 



Abductor minimi digiti. 



( Inner head. 

 Accessorius - 



t Outer head. 



Tibialis posticus 



expansion. 



Flexor bre\ is hallucis. 

 Peroneus brevis. 



Flexor brevis minimi 

 digiti. 



Plantar interossei. 



Flexor brevis minimi 

 digiti. 



Flexor Longna digitorum. 



Plantaris. 



Abductor hallucis. 



Tibialis posticus 

 ansio 

 ines). 



(expansions indicated 

 by lin 



Tibialis anticus. 



Peronens longus. 



Adductor obliquus 

 hallucis (encircled by 

 ring). 



Dorsal interossei. 



Adductor transversus 



hallucis. 

 Interossei. 



Flexor brevis digitorum. 

 FIG. 76. MUSCULAR ATTACHMENTS ON PLANTAR ASPECT OF FOOT 



anteriorly in a tendon which is inserted into the outer side of the 

 base of the first phalanx of the little toe. 



The muscle lies along the outer border of the foot, and conceals relations ; 

 the flexor accessories, and the tendon of the peroneus longus. On 

 its inner side are the external plantar vessels and nerves. Some- 

 times a part of the muscle is fixed into the projection of the fifth 

 metatarsal bone. 



Action. Though it can abduct the little toe from the others, as use as 



the name .signifies, its chief use is to bend the nietatarso-phalangeal a 



. . and flexor. 



joint. 



